In June, the Ed Team is thinking about libraries and their importance for literacy and education. I read The Personal Librarian by Marie Benedict and Victoria Christopher Murray. The book’s protagonist, Belle da Costa Greene, was the real life personal librarian for J.P. Morgan. She helped him build one of the world’s finest collections...
We often think of the fight for literacy taking place in the halls of government or with human rights activists. Author Sapphire takes the fight for literacy into the boxing ring of real life. The main character, Precious Jones, is a sixteen-year-old girl living in a house of domestic and sexual abuse. She is living...
This April, the Ed Team has also been inspired by the Kate Greenway (Carnegie sister award for illustration) shortlist and SDG Target 4.7, Global Citizenship. We recommend reading Drawn Across Borders, True Stories of Human Migration by George Butler. Every high school library should have this book to teach students about human rights, human...
This April, the Ed Team has been inspired by the Carnegie Medal shortlist and SDG Target 4.7, Global Citizenship. We recommend reading The Crossing by Manjeet Mann.* Every high school library should have this book to teach students about human rights and promotion of a culture of peace and non-violence. The book tells the...
March is Poetry Month, and the Ed Team encourages you to read some poems this month! In particular, we recommend the poems of presidential inaugural poet and youth poet laureate Amanda Gorman in her book Call Us What We Carry. Ms. Gorman’s book is especially relevant this month because the Ed Team is focusing on...
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools provides interesting but troubling reading. Author Monique W. Morris describes, often in narratives that individualize the problem, how Black girls’ behavior in middle and high schools is crimininalized, pushing the girls out of school. This pushing out makes it difficult for the girls to obtain the quality education...
